The hero Chlorophylle is a dormouse living in an European countryside and fighting his Arch-Nemesis Anthracite the Black Rat.

In the middle of the series Chlorophylle discovers Coquefredouille, a Mediterranean-style island with a Mouse World full of Civilized Animals. He deals with predators and evil nobles before returning home.

The Coquefredouille arc would serve as a basis for an other Macherot (abrogate, then praised) series, Chaminou.

Chlorophylle provides examples of the following tropes:

Ambiguous Gender: It was unclear in the first issues if Torpille la Loutre (Torpedo the Otter) is male or female. As loutre is a feminine noun, Torpille is often referred as a "she" but lacks feminine characteristics such as eyelashes. From la Revanche d'Anthracite, Torpille is clearly female.

Batman Gambit: Zizanion, unable to attack Mithron because of his guards, delivers a message announcing he will make the palace blow up at midday. Bouclette, as a precaution to protect the king, has him immediatly moved to a different, more isolated castle in the country. Turns out this is exactly what Zizanion expected them to do, as it makes it easier for him to place the bomb in this more isolated and unguarded castle before Mithron arrives. Fortunately, their car ends up with a damaged tyre and they arrive too late, causing the castle to blow up without them inside.

Hoist by His Own Petard: Anthracite tried to get rid of Chlorophylle by tiding him up to a firecracker rocket. But he got himself caught on the rocket and couldn't apparently jump before it explodes.

Humans Are Bastards: they have this vicious tendency to create a lot of things dangerous to animals.

Inspector Lestrade: Commissaire Bouclette. In Zizanion le terrible, he rejects out of hand the heroes' suspicions, and the start of the book shows he's more concern with finding "a culprit" than the truth.

Intrepid Reporter: Chlorophylle and Minimum in Zizanion le terrible. Zizanion exploits it by phoning their newspaper with a bomb threat.

Joker Immunity: Anthracite has been apparently blown up on a firework, imprisonned several times, including in a high security jail, but he always find a way to come back.

Reverse Psychology: In one book, Anthracite starts a fight with a prisonner who is about to be freed next morning. When the Warden is about to punish him, he begs him to not see said prisonner again, and the Warden of course decides to have them share a cell. Turns out Anthracite wanted this to happen: the prisonner is his accomplice, and this allows them to plan an escape for him.

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